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WALTER O. KELLEY, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

MATCH-HOLDER Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 5, 1909.

Application filed January 4, 1908. Serial No. 409,313.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WVALTER C. KELLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Match-Holder, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a match holder of the type designed to hold. in storage a considerable quantity of matches and also hold a less number of matches in an exposed position Where they can be conveniently reached for use.

The object of the invention is to provide a holder of this nature which is very simple and cheap to construct and which has a relatively large receptacle for holding a quantity of matches, and a smaller holder which when emptied can be readily manipulated so as to abstract a few matches from the storage receptacle and retain them in a handy position.

The embodiment of the invention shown has a receptacle adapted to receive a full box or more of matches, with a lid arranged to close the receptacle and cover the matches. ()n the front of the storage receptacle is a smaller holder or cup which normally stands in an upright position and holds a relatively small number of matches in such manner that they can be conveniently taken when desired for use. The cup is so mounted and connected with the walls of the storage receptacle that when it is desired to remove matches from the receptacle the cup can be drawn down, and after being turned horizontally can be thrust into the receptacle and caused to gather a number of matches, and then withdrawn and replaced in its vertical position on the front of the storage receptacle.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings shows a front elevation of a match holder which embodies the invention. Fig. 2 shows a central vertical section of the same holder. Fig. 3 shows a side elevation with parts broken away, and with the cup dropped down, tilted and partly pushed inwardly as when being manipulated to gather matches from the mass in the storage receptacle.

The storage receptacle 1 is preferably formed of thin sheet metal, although it can of course be formed of any other material.

This receptacle is desirably made with the top wider than the bottom and with sloping walls so that the matches which are emptied thereinto will gravitate toward the bottom. The matches are put into the receptacle so that their axes extend toward the front and back. It makes no particular difference whether the heads of the matches are at the front .or at the back. The storage receptacle preferably has a back 2 with a perforation or loop 3 by means of which the device may be hung on a wall. This back may be ornamented or provided with any suitable design for the purpose of giving it an attractive finish. Hinged to the top of the storage receptacle, preferably with the hinge at the back, is a lid 4 which may be raised to permit matches to be emptied into the storage receptacle, and lowered so as to cover the receptacle and protect the matches.

In the front wall of the storage receptacle is an opening 5 and occupying this opening is a vertically sliding panel 6. This panel can be made somewhat wider than the opening, and lips 7 can be bent from the top of the panel over the edges of the opening on to the outside of the front wall of the storage receptacle and lips 8 can be bent from the bottom I of the front wall of the receptacle around the edges of the panel so as to hold the panel in position and yet permit it to be lowered and raised when desired. The parts are fitted and bent so that they hold together with sufficient friction to prevent any accidental movement of the panel.

Hinged to the upper edge of the panel is a wing 9, and movably held to this hinged wing is the scoop like front holder or cup 10. This cup is held to the hinged wing by cars 1 1 that extend through a slot 12 in the back wall of the cup so that the cup may have a movement longitudinally with relation to the hinged wing to which it is connected. Attached to thebottom of the cup is a handle 13 provided with a spring finger 14 that is de signed to engage the lower edge of the panel for the purpose of holding the lower edge of the cup against the panel.

lVhen it is desired to fill the cup with matches which have been emptied into the storage receptacle, the cup and the panel are drawn downwardly to the desired position and then the lower end of the cup is disengaged from the panel and the cup tipped to the position shown in Fig. 3. hen it is in this position it can be pushed backwardly so that the cup will pass between the matches in the storage receptacle and scoop up enough to fill it. The cup is then drawn forwardly and tipped to a vertical position until it is again engaged with the panel, after which the cup and the panel are raised so that the panel fills the opening in the front wall of the receptacle and the cup stands on the front with some matches ready to be drawn out for use The invention claimed is:

1. A match holder having a storage receptacle with an opening in its front wall, a holding cup on the front of the receptacle and means connecting the holding cup with the front of the receptacle whereby the cup may be tipped to a horizontal position and moved into and out of the holding receptacle through the opening in its front wall, substantially as specified.

2. A match holder having a storage receptacle with an opening in its front wall, a panel vertically movable in the opening in the front wall, and a holding cup hinged to the panel,

so that it moves up and down with the panel and also has an oscillatory movement with gelation to the panel, substantially as speci- 3. A match holder having a storage recep tacle with an opening in its front wall, a panel movable vertically in said opening, a cup movable longitudinally with relation to and pinlged to the panel, substantially as speci- 4. A match holder having a storage receptacle with an opening in its front wall, a panel movable vertically in said opening, a wing hinged to said panel, a holding cup movably connected with said wing, and means for temporarily holding the free end of the cup to the panel, substantially as specified.

WALTER C. KELLEY.

Witnesses HARRY R. WILLIAMS, JOSEPHINE M. STREMPFER. 

